The return of history: is the West's liberal establishment crumbling?
American political scientist Francis Fukuyama wrote "perhaps the best-known statement on the then-apparent triumph of liberal ...
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35 years ago, family witnessed history as Berlin Wall fell [I Know a Story column]
Who would have known a holiday trip to Germany in December 1989, would have offered an opportunity to be an eyewitness to, ...
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“The main credit for the fall of the Berlin Wall belongs to Pope John Paul II”
“Gorbachev never wanted to see the end of communism or the Berlin Wall, that was not his way of seeing things”, added Walesa. “The truth is that 50% of the fall of the Wall belongs to John ...
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The Cold War
The end of the Cold War By the beginning of the 1980s, the Soviet Union faced several challenges. The taking down of the Berlin Wall in 1989 kick-started the fall of the Soviet Union.